British Primary School teacher (now living the good life in Spain!) sharing planning and resources to make those planning weekends a little bit easier!
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British Primary School teacher (now living the good life in Spain!) sharing planning and resources to make those planning weekends a little bit easier!
Please check-out my Instagram page (the_diary_of_an_nqt) for more tips, ideas and advice!
Talk For Writing
Termly target: To use wow words, a range of openers, connectives and punctuation.
Main outcome: Retelling a Fantasy Story through role play and writing.
Text: Where The Wild Things Are.
Monday: LO: I can explore a main character
Tuesday: LO: I can describe a main character
Wednesday: LO: I can write in role as a character
Thursday: LO: I can use question marks (SPAG)
Friday: LO: I can describe a setting
Includes all resources for each day:
Includes Guided Reading activity.
Includes a weekly SPAG lesson.
Includes teacher model of 'where the wild things are' to be used for Talk for Writing.
Includes assessment grids.
Week 1) To predict, describe and create characters/setting descriptions using a range of adjectives/adverbs and pronouns
L.O: I am learning to make predictions (Finding evidence and explaining vocabulary)
L.O: I am learning how to retell a story (Learning partners - images, sequencing or writing)
L.O: I am learning to describe (Writing sentences, wordbanks , Learning partners)
L.O: I am learning to describe
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Annotating images, differentiated Qs).
Week 2)
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Exploring Stone Age people)
L.O: I am learning to create (Children create their own Stone Age character)
L.O: I am learning to infer (Writing from the view point of a stone age character.
L.O: I am learning to describe (Describing a Stone Age character’s surroundings; using 5 senses, adverbs of time)
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).
Week 3) Preparing Stone Age poems to read aloud and perform - showing intonation, volume & action
L.O: I am learning to retell a poem (Talk for writing, Creating actions to practise reciting poetry orally from memory).
L.O: I am learning the features of a poem (MIxed ability collaborative work).
L.O: I am learning to give an opinion (Sentence stems to help chn explain and justify opinions on different poems)
L.O: I am learning to recite a poem (Children write class poem from memory using T4W actions).
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).
Curriculum Target:
To write an extended piece of writing
Main outcome: To create an ending for a story
Text: The Snail and The Whale
Day 1) LO: I can explore different settings
Day 2) LO: I can describe a range of settings
Day 3) LO: I can sequence a story
Day 4) LO: I can explore a character
Day 5) LO: Learning Outcome: I can explore my senses
Includes:
All daily resources required (labelled and listed in lesson plan)
Images for classroom display
A child friendly version of the story for the teacher to model daily (without an ending) as the lesson starter so children can create actions (Talk for Writing). This supports the children when they come to write independently in week 2 (so they can copy the model from memory).
* I created a flag and stuck it in the middle of the school field and the initial hook. I also planted a message in a bottle from the snail. (Detailed in lesson plan). Lots of opportunities for creative thinking and talking.
Termly target: To use joining words, adverbs, verbs and specific text type features.
Main outcome: To create a set of instructions.
Text(s): A range of instructions (Teacher's own model of balancing a feather and creating a sock puppet).
Monday: LO: I can give clear instructions (Bossy/Imperative verbs, Speaking and Listening)
Tuesday: LO: I can identify features of instructions - SPAG (Time Connectives)
Wednesday: LO: I can plan
Thursday: LO: I can sequence instructions
Friday: LO: I can list features of instructions
Includes:
Homework activities
A range of instructions for KS1
Daily lesson resources
SPAG lesson on time connectives
Termly target: To develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by listening to and discussing a wide range of poems.
Children explore their senses/ capture sensory experiences and learn how to follow rhymes.
Main outcome: To write and perform a poem to their peers.
Text(s): A range of poems
Day 1) No Learning Outcome as it was a bank holiday - Can be used to respond to feedback in books or for children to go on an outside 'observational walk' and/or using instruments etc. to use their 5 senses.
Day 2) Learning Outcome: I can explore a range of poems
Day 3) Learning Outcome: I can explore my 5 senses (Collaborative carousel activity for 2 sessions).
Day 4) Learning Outcome: I can explore my 5 senses (Collaborative carousel activity for 2 sessions).
Day 5) Learning Outcome: I can identify and discuss describing words
Includes: Weekly plan, links to websites, lists of resources for activities, a whole variety of simple poems using the 5 senses (can also be used for Guided Reading).
Curriculum Target:
To write an extended piece of writing using punctuation.
Main outcome: To write a recount of a story
Text: The Gigantic Turnip
Day 1) LO: I can retell a story (Language through Experience)
Day 2) LO:I can explore characters from a book
Day 3) LO: I can explore different settings (Images for flip chart paper included)
Day 4) LO: I can sequence a story
Includes:
All daily resources required (labelled and listed in lesson plan)
Images for classroom display
Termly target: To add suffixes: _ing, _ed, _er and _est to a root word.
To learn the days of the week.
To use a capital letter for names of people, places, the days of the week.
To use the personal pronoun ’I’.
Main outcome: To write a recount.
Text: Jasper’s Beanstalk.
Monday LO: I can create a story map
Tuesday LO: I can participate during class discussion
Wednesday LO: I can plan a story
Thursday LO: I can write a recount
Friday LO: I can edit and improve my work
Includes:
Daily resources
Teacher recount for daily lesson starter - Talk for Writing to create actions
Assessment grids for writing
Weekly plan
Curriculum Target:
To write an extended piece of writing
Main outcome: To create an ending for a story
Text: The Snail and The Whale
Day 1) LO: I can sequence my ideas
Day 2) LO: I can draft a story
Day 3) LO: I can draft a story
Day 4) LO: I can edit and improve my work
Day 5) LO: I can publish a story
Includes:
Some daily resources required (labelled and listed in lesson plan)
Images for classroom display
Guided Reading Independent Activity
A child friendly version of the story for the teacher to model daily (without an ending) as the lesson starter so children can create actions (Talk for Writing). This supports the children when they come to write independently in week 2 (so they can copy the model from memory).
* I created a flag and stuck it in the middle of the school field and the initial hook. I also planted a message in a bottle from the snail. (Detailed in lesson plan). Lots of opportunities for creative thinking and talking.
Year 1 English - A week of English lessons, including SPAG lesson on Connectives
Termly target: To use wow words, a range of openers, connectives and punctuation.
Main outcome: Retelling a traditional tale through role play and writing.
Differentiation and extension activities.
Monday LO: I can create main characters from a story
Tuesday LO: I can explore a text through drama techniques
Wednesday LO: I can use connectives to link ideas
Thursday LO: I can make predictions about the main events in a story
Friday LO: I can give give reasons for a character’s feelings.
Resources listed in lesson plan.
I have also attached a child friendly version of the story for the teacher to model daily and create actions to (Talk for Writing), so the children can copy the model from memory.
TEN Weeks worth of differentiated (SEN/FSL - LA - MA - HA - GDS) English and Reading Lesson Plans and Resources - (Preferably for Autumn Term as Bonfire Night and Autumnal Poetry covered).
Texts include: Stone Age Boy/ Daisy and The Trouble with Zoos/ City Green/ Poetry/ Animal Performance
Week 1) Introduction Week - Our Natural World
LO: I am learning to describe (Sorting ‘Natural world’ cards and objects and explaining why)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Reading and summarising Habitats text)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Plants text)
LO: I am learning to analyse (Animals text)
LO: I am learning to define (Independent write - Chn revise/reflect on what they have learnt about the natural world and define it in their own simple sentences).
Week 2) Stone Age Boy Text - To predict, describe and create characters/setting descriptions using a range of adjectives/adverbs and pronouns
L.O: I am learning to make predictions (Finding evidence and explaining vocabulary)
L.O: I am learning how to retell a story (Learning partners - images, sequencing or writing)
L.O: I am learning to describe (Writing sentences, wordbanks , Learning partners)
L.O: I am learning to describe
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Annotating images, differentiated Qs).
Week 3) Stone Age Boy Text (Week 2 of 3)
L.O: I am learning to infer a character’s feelings (Exploring Stone Age people)
L.O: I am learning to create (Children create their own Stone Age character)
L.O: I am learning to infer (Writing from the view point of a stone age character.
L.O: I am learning to describe (Describing a Stone Age character’s surroundings; using 5 senses, adverbs of time)
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).
Week 4) Stone Age Boy Text (Week 3 of 3) - Preparing Stone Age poems to read aloud and perform - showing intonation, volume & action
L.O: I am learning to retell a poem (Talk for writing, Creating actions to practise reciting poetry orally from memory).
L.O: I am learning the features of a poem (MIxed ability collaborative work).
L.O: I am learning to give an opinion (Sentence stems to help chn explain and justify opinions on different poems)
L.O: I am learning to recite a poem (Children write class poem from memory using T4W actions).
L.O: I am learning to evaluate and edit (Independent time to respond to developmental marking and edit/rewrite to improve learning).
Week 5) Our Natural World - Preparing Natural World poems to read aloud and perform - showing intonation, volume & action
L.O: I am learning to describe (Sorting, building vocabulary, using adjectives to describe findings)
L.O. I am learning to analyse a poem (Comprehension - answering differentiated Qs to explore a poem)
L.O: I am learning how to plan a poem (Differentiated writing frames for planning a poem)
L.O: I am learning to write a poem (Children write a poem on our natural world)
Talk For Writing
Termly target: To use wow words, a range of openers, connectives and punctuation.
Main outcome: Retelling a Fantasy Story through role play and writing.
Text: Where The Wild Things Are.
Monday: LO: I can create a story map
Tuesday: LO: I can participate during class discussion
Wednesday: LO: I can plan a story
Thursday: LO: I can write a recount
Friday: LO: I can edit my work
Includes teacher model of 'where the wild things are' to be used for Talk for Writing.
Includes assessment grids.
Year 1 English - A week of English lessons, including SPAG lesson on Connectives
Termly target: To use wow words, a range of openers, connectives and punctuation.
Main outcome: Retelling a traditional tale through role play and writing.
Differentiation and extension activities.
Monday LO: I can describe settings
Tuesday LO: I can participate during a class discussion
Wednesday LO: I can plan a story
Thursday LO: I can write the beginning of a story
Friday LO: I can write the middle and end of a story
Resources listed in lesson plan.
I have also attached a child friendly version of the story for the teacher to model daily and create actions to (Talk for Writing), so the children can copy the model from memory.
Termly target: To use joining words, adverbs, verbs and specific text type features.
Main outcome: To create a set of instructions.
Text(s): A range of instructions (Teacher's own model of balancing a feather and creating a sock puppet).
Monday: LO: I can research (children looking at existing puppet ideas - evaluating)
Tuesday: LO: I can plan (mind maps)
Wednesday: LO: I can work creatively (creating ideas for sock puppets)
Thursday: LO: I can plan (Children plan and evaluate their own sock puppets)
Friday: LO: I can plan
Includes:
Homework activities
Puppets from around the world presentation
A range of instructions for KS1
Daily lesson resources
SPAG lesson on time connectives
Termly target:
simple phrases/sentences that can be read by themselves and others.
capital letters for names of people.
words with finger spaces.
words spelt using their phonic knowledge.
Text(s):
The Works Key Stage 1 by Pie Corbett
The Nursery Rhyme Book by Helen Cumberbatch.
The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes by Raymond Briggs.
The Orchard Book of Nursery Rhymes by Faith Jacques.
Talk for Writing in The Early Years by Pie Corbett.
A variety of nursery songs and rhymes from the BBC School Radio website.
Traditional Rhymes.
Main outcome: Children write their own poem based on a model
Day 1) LO: I can practise talk for writing (Children create actions for Mary, Mary Quite Contrary Rhyme)
Day 2) LO: I can explore my five senses
Day 3) LO: I can sort information
Day 4) LO: I can explore a character
Day 5) LO: I can think about my character’s personality
Year 3 Expected - (KS2) Reasoning Assessment papers covering all Maths topics: Numbers - Geometry - Measures - Statistics
Can be used to assess at the end of Year 3; as lower ability tests for Year 4/5; or as lesson warm up/starter Questions to unpick as a whole class.
Editable Word Documents. 4-5 test questions per paper.
Talk For Writing
Termly target: To use wow words, question marks and exclamation marks.
Main outcome: Retelling a Fantasy story through role play and writing.
Text: Winnie in Space
Monday: LO: I can remember main events in a story.
Tuesday: LO: I can participate during a class discussion.
Wednesday: LO: I can plan a story.
Thursday: LO: I can write a recount.
Friday: LO: I can edit and improve my work.
Includes teacher model of 'Winnie in Space' to be used for Talk for Writing.
Includes a weekly SPAG lesson.
Includes resources for lessons and learning grammar - question marks.
Talk For Writing
Termly target: To use wow words, question marks and exclamation marks.
Main outcome: Retelling a Fantasy story through role play and writing.
Text: Winnie in Space
Monday: LO: I can explore a new book
Tuesday: LO: I can describe a main character
Wednesday: LO: I can use a question mark (SPAG)
Thursday: LO: I can explore a character
Friday: LO: I can describe a setting
Includes teacher model of 'Winnie in Space' to be used for Talk for Writing.
Includes a weekly SPAG lesson.
Includes resources for lessons and learning grammar - question marks.
English and Design and Technology Topic
Termly target: To use time connectives, joining words, adverbs, verbs and specific text type features.
Main outcome: To create a set of instructions.
Text(s): A range of instructions
Monday: LO: I can make a puppet
Tuesday: LO: I can make a puppet
Wednesday: LO: I can use time connectives (SPAG lesson)
Thursday: LO: I can evaluate
Friday: LO: I can reflect
Includes:
Weekly planning
Puppets from around the world presentation
a variety of different instructions
SPAG lesson on time connectives
Termly target: To develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by listening to and discussing a wide range of poems.
Children explore their senses/ capture sensory experiences and learn how to follow rhymes.
Main outcome: To write and perform a poem to their peers.
Text(s): A range of poems
Day 1) LO: I can sequence my ideas
Day 2) LO: I can explore my senses and use repeated language
Day 3) LO: I can edit and improve my work
Day 4) LO: I can publish a poem
Day 5) LO: I can understand suffixes (SPAG lesson) (Will need to download matching suffix cards from Twinkl or make your own. One with a root word, one with the added suffix to match partners.)
Includes: Weekly plan, SPAG lesson, links to websites, lists of resources for activities, a whole variety of simple poems using the 5 senses (can also be used for Guided Reading).
Curriculum Target:
To articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions.
To give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes.
Main outcome: To write a letter based on an opinion
Text: The Day The Crayon's Quit
Day 1) LO: I can use persuasive language
Day 2) LO: I can use joining words (SPAG lesson)
Day 3) LO: I can explore the features of a persuasive letter
Day 4) LO: I can explore a main character
Day 5) LO: I can explore a main character
Includes:
All daily resources required (labelled and listed in lesson plan)
A weekly SPAG lesson
A child friendly version of the story for the teacher to model daily as the lesson starter so children can create actions (Talk for Writing). This supports the children when they come to write independently in week 2 (so they can copy the model from memory).